A Darwin court judicial officer described it: "Like the first couple of paragraphs in a coronial, when a woman is beaten to death by a man".
If The Mango Inquirer published how Paul Jinjair knew his victim, readers' may be shocked, but then we'd have to leave out reporting on the attempted rape, due to the Sexual Offences Act 1984.
Laws designed, and rightly so, to protect the identity of victims.
Jinjair's attempted rape, pleaded down to an indecent assault, occurred in the early hours of January 11th outside Moil Supermarket in Darwin's northern suburbs.
Before the night in question, the statement of facts said the offender and victim consumed alcohol before the victim fell asleep near the supermarket, heavily intoxicated, where multiple CCTV cameras were recording and captured much of the offending.
At 4.35am Jinjair placed a blanket over the sleeping victim and got under with her, before lifting his leg and "grinding against her backside with his groin and then continued to roll against her."
The statement of facts continued: "The victim did not respond to the physical contact and remained sleeping, unconscious due to her intoxication, unaware what he was doing to her.
"A witness [from a nearby group] was walking back from using the toilet and saw the offender doing these things. The offender saw the witness and stopped.
"The offender got up with his bare buttocks exposed and walked away, pulling his pants up.
"The witness went to the victim and took the pillow and blanket letting her head fall to the concrete. The victim's slower half became exposed with her dress and underwear down to her thighs.
"The witness did not attempt to wake her or assist her in any way and left her there."
Jinjair returned to his victim again and tried a few more times, but was pushed away when the victim stirred.
The following morning the witness told the victim what they saw.
When Jinjair was confronted outside the supermarket, he beat the victim with a child's plastic walker, sticks, and over ten body strikes with his fists, including pulling the victim by her hair.
Jinjair only stopped the violence once the victim got ahold of the sticks and warned him off from the area.
The judicial officer presiding over the matter described it as "a betrayal" and a "highly indecent" aggravated assault that was "protracted" and "public".
"As set out by counsel, those gaps [in his criminal history] are explained by him at times being a stockman, ranger and working in construction, and being a working man.
"Last year he was sentenced to three months for assaulting police, and some time for escaping custody."
After reading through Jinjair's multiple assaults against women dating back to 1993, the judicial officer said: "it is not out of character for him".
"He is a man throughout his life that has regularly committed serious assaults against women.
"At this age, with this record, notwithstanding the gap, given the nature of the offending, his prospects for rehabilitation are poor.
Jinjair received two years and six months non-parole.
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